The use of neural networks in statistical process control charts

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 641-650

  Psarakis, Stelios ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

autocorrelated processes; multivariate control charts; neural networks; quality control charts

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; AUTOCORRELATED PROCESS; HUMAN BRAIN; MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENTS; MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTING; MONITORING PROCESS; MULTIVARIATE CONTROL CHARTS; OUT-OF-CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL CHARTS; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL CHARTS; VARIANCE SHIFTS;

FLOWCHARTING; GRAPHIC METHODS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; QUALITY CONTROL;

STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 79960836280     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: 10991638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.1227     Document Type: Conference Paper

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